Why I Am a Fan of Getting My News With Paper.Li

Why I Am a Fan of Getting My News with Paper.Li
Last Updated on: October 28, 2026

On Mashable, Jolie O-Dell wrote that “For the First Time, More People Get News Online Than From Newspapers.” I am one of those people. In fact, I rarely read a newspaper at all. I get virtually all my news online, and perhaps the evening news on television. However, more and more, I have been subscribing to virtual newspapers created on Paper.li.

Paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook. Sometimes, I do not have time to sift through all of my Twitter feeds. Paper.li provides me with a snapshot of feeds in a newspaper-type format. Paper.li expands the 140-character tweets based on the content in the tweet. With this newspaper format, I can quickly review the news articles.

If you subscribe, a “newspaper” will be e-mailed to you daily. You can subscribe to newsletters created by others, or you can create your own paper. You can create up to 10 papers based on a Twitter or Facebook account, a Twitter hashtag, or a Twitter list.

Here are the virtual papers I am currently following:

  • Instructional Design Daily
  • The UW CES Ed Tech Daily
  • The #mlearning Daily
  • The Cooperative Extension Daily
  • The NatCap Aerospace Daily
  • E-learning Daily

If you know of any good papers that you think I might be interested in, please leave a comment below.